Population
The scientific study of population
What is the demography?
As defined by the World Health Organization, “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity”
What is health?
An observable alteration of the global atmosphere that affects natural weather patterns over several decades or longer
What is climate change?
Organized collective activity to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society
What is a social movement?
Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture
What is social change?
The number of live births per 1,000 population in a given year; also known as the crude birthrate
What is the birthrate?
The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births in a given year
What is the infant mortality rate?
Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill
What is the sick role?
Attitudes that did not reflect workers’ objective position
What is false consciousness?
Cultural information about the ways in which the material resources of the environment may be used to satisfy human needs and desires
What is technology?
The number of deaths per 1,000 population in a given year; also known as the crude death rate
What is the death rate?
What is social epidemiology?
An approach that focuses on the alignment of environmentally favorable practices with economic self-interest through constant adaptation and restructuring
What is ecological modernization?
Those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change
What are/Who have vested interests?
The period of maladjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions
Cultural Lag?
A city that is not merely more populous than its preindustrial predecessors; it is based on very different principles of social organization
What is an industrial city?
The median number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions
What is life expectancy?
A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities and the lower classes are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards
What is environmental justice?
The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities
What is Relative Deprivation?
Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution
Who are the luddites?
A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy
What is a post-industrial society?
Incidence figures presented as rates or as the number of reports of a disorder per 100,000 people
What is the morbidity rate?
An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment
What is human ecology?
The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money, political influence, access to the media, and personnel
What is Resource Mobilization?
Proposes that as changes occur in one part of society, adjustments must be made in other parts
What is the equilibrium model?